{"id":20092,"date":"2024-04-03T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/?p=20092"},"modified":"2024-04-03T10:53:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:53:06","slug":"update-on-the-future-of-the-script-lab-office-add-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/update-on-the-future-of-the-script-lab-office-add-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the future of the Script Lab Office add-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Script Lab is a popular add-in for Office developers that lets you create, run, and share JavaScript code snippets in Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. It is a great tool for learning, prototyping, and experimenting with the Office JavaScript API. Script Lab was originally developed as an open-source project by Microsoft Garage, a program that encourages employees to pursue their passion projects.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Script Lab grew in popularity and functionality, we realized that it needed a more sustainable and secure model of development and distribution. That&#8217;s why we are excited to announce that Script Lab is now officially owned and maintained by Microsoft. As a result, Script Lab will no longer be open source, and the GitHub repository will be archived.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20207 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/04\/word-image-20092-1-719x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/04\/word-image-20092-1-719x1024.png 719w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/04\/word-image-20092-1-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/04\/word-image-20092-1-768x1094.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2024\/04\/word-image-20092-1.png 776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the consequences of this change is that we are removing the GitHub gist sharing functionality from Script Lab. This feature allowed users to save and share their code snippets as GitHub gists. To better protect our users and their data, we decided to disable this feature in the latest version of Script Lab. Users can still copy their code snippets to the clipboard and share them with others, but they will need to manually import them into Script Lab.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of Script Lab will begin rolling out on April 2<sup>nd<\/sup> 2024. Nothing apart from the GitHub integration about your experience should change. Your snippets may temporarily be missing from your <strong>My Snippets<\/strong> list as the backend storage switches locations. Reloading the add-in should fix this. If you are still experiencing issues several minutes after the update, please report them on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OfficeDev\/office-js\">office-js GitHub repo<\/a> or try the following workaround.<\/p>\n<p>You can return to the previous version of Script Lab to export snippets as gists and recover any snippets that did not automatically transfer. <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/office\/dev\/add-ins\/testing\/test-debug-office-add-ins#sideload-an-office-add-in-for-testing\">Sideload<\/a> the previous version\u2019s manifest to return to that version and see your workspace as it was. We will continue to host this version until June 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2024. You can find the legacy Script Lab manifests here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OfficeDev\/script-lab\/blob\/master\/manifests\/sideload.xml\">Excel, Word, and PowerPoint<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OfficeDev\/script-lab\/blob\/master\/manifests\/sideload.outlook.xml\">Outlook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We understand that some of you may be disappointed by these changes, and we appreciate your feedback and support. We believe that these changes will ultimately benefit the Script Lab community and provide a better experience for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for using Script Lab!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Script Lab is now officially owned and maintained by Microsoft, will no longer be open source, and the GitHub repository will be archived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154293,"featured_media":20232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[28,50],"class_list":["post-20092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-365-developer","category-office-add-ins","tag-office-add-ins","tag-script-lab"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Script Lab is now officially owned and maintained by Microsoft, will no longer be open source, and the GitHub repository will be archived.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}